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Kekexili, filmed along Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau, takes your mind out of the box

posted by brad wong on 2009.11.24, under china, history, kekexili, video, wow

 

If your schedule permits this Thanksgiving weekend, reserve some time to rent and watch Kekexili.

It really can help take your mind out of the box. It’s based on a true story from the 1990s about frontier life high along the Tibetan-Qinghai plateau.

The film, directed by Lu Chuan, looks at a group of men who pursue animal poachers - the animal in this case is the chiru, which is the Tibetan antelope.

The animal’s skin is used to make the illegal shahtoosh scarves and the number of antelopes has alarmed conservationists.

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